Bing v Google, round 1
Corinna Proctor / Trends / Web & SoftwareI gave in and took a few peeks around Bing – I have to admit that their ads, although confusing, are interesting. I’ve personally never experienced “search overload” or people around me spewing out words like they are playing a frantic board game, but, hey, maybe I’m the minority.
In our project work we are consistently asked to provide human factors or design reviews for our clients. So today, for the fun of it, I decided to conduct my own 5-second comparison of Bing v Google.
My search terms: Reviews of the LG Xenon
The results speak for themselves.
With Bing, the top hit was a review from a site I’d never heard of which was dated September 2008, announcing that the Xenon would be out at Christmas — Christmas 2008, mind you.
I was also hit with 7 advertisements: 3 on top and a few along the margin.
Google’s results were more relevant to what I wanted – CNET’s review dated April 2009 was first. And (somehow, amazingly), not a single paid advertiser appears on this page.
Score: Google 1, Bing 0
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Andrew Wirtanen
Check out “Blind Search”: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
With this site, you enter in a search term and are presented with three sets of results. One is bing, one is Google, and one is Yahoo!
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